Lemmings: Strategy & Puzzle

I love this game!!! Totally recommend! The regular levels are fun and the mayhem levels are a great challenge. The game has been updated recently to include mayhem levels on all the past seasons and new Xp upgrades which is awesome! Great problem solving game! One suggestion to the developers: Add something for the player after they beat all the mayhem levels in a particular season. It could be anything - an animation of fireworks or a trophy or something. It is just a bit anti climatic to beat all the mayhem levels in a season (as I have done on seasons 9, 10, and 31 so far) and the only reward after all my hard work is just that the skull beside the season flips from red to green. I know anything you add is just pixels on a screen, but feeling like you are rewarded for your hard work is nice and keeps me going on really hard levels Developers - I still love this game but I need help, the recently released challenge level “The Fool” seems unsolvable. The yellow lemming will always drown and there is no way to get him out. Am I wrong? Please give me a hint on one’s is suppose to solve this level!! Thank you!

If you get two eggs for example and reopen the first one, it forgets that you had the second one so you never get it. This is true for any amount of eggs too. I have seen this happen in another place too but I can’t remember where. Another thing I hate is that it takes a while to load the ad offer between levels so you can hit the play level button then see the ad offer popup but it is too late to tap it so you lose it. It should not allow you to press play until that offer has fully loaded so you can tell it yes or no before going into the level. Another thing that is awful is that there is no explanation for any new hazards so you just have to lose lemmings on them and lose the level to get information on them. This is especially the case for the challenge levels where you are just dropped in with many new hazards and no clue how to deal with them before you lose and don’t get to retry or learn. Let me at least know what I did wrong or how I could do better the next time. Another complaint is the “tournaments”, you have to opt in to them then any progress you made before opting in is not counted even though that tournament was already going on. People also can cheat in them by joining a level then leaving over and over to get the lemmings ad offer to appear. So they get lemmings for the tournament without completing a level. Otherwise the game isn’t so bad, it is just odd to me that there are so many unpolished things.

So I played the original years and years ago. This is a wonderful recreation. It’s a phenomenal puzzle game even without the nostalgia. However, I can’t give it 5 stars for one simple reason. Greed. Of course all apps are going to have in-game purchases, which is completely understandable. But most app developers are going to guarantee you get something for your hard earned cash. These developers did not see fit to do that when it comes to collectibles (tribes specifically). Purchased eggs can give duplicates. You would think a refuse, partial refund, or other compensation is in order. Nope. They will give a partial refund to a “piggy bank” that you have to pay for to get that gold back. They found a way to make money without actually giving anything in return. You can slowly earn in-game currency (gold) through gameplay. I recommend only using earned gold for energy refills or other guaranteed prizes. You can earn energy and eggs through watching ads, which the developers also get paid for. So if you want to support the developers, watch the ads. They’re 15-30 seconds that you don’t have to pay for and you still get prizes. The downside to this method is that if you want to complete the tribe collections, the free eggs from ads have a very low drop rate (if any) for the higher rarity eggs. You could save up your gold and purchase sets or individual tribe members when they are offered, but you’ll never know when they might show up, so it could take a while.